Product Description: Dervishes is about a lesbian physicist, a mayoral primary, independent judgment, a maternal deprogramming, superfluid helium, and a concupiscent crustacean, among other things. At its heart, Dervishes is the story of a woman’s odyssey toward finding her academic, sexual, and political selves, in the face of well-meaning and not so well-meaning pressures...read more

The principles of TEACH—trust, engagement, asset-building, care, and hard work—are the basis of this inspirational guide to improving teacher-student relationships. Eighteen teachers from across the country share their secrets of how to encourage responsibility, empathy, and hard work—qualities that lead to academic and personal achievement—in their everyday interactions with students. Rooted in the Developmental Assets™ approach, these narratives seek to foster the concrete, commonsensical, and positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people.

Product Description: Applies asset-based guidance to help sports coaches handle common challenges such as fights between players, lack of fan support, and raising the academic level of athletes.

Product Description: Drawn from the experiences of over 100 youth-work professionals, this book demonstrates how to maximize asset-building opportunities, enhance asset-building power, and focus on goals and expectations.

Product Description: Seventy-eight inventive activity recipes designed to help teachers and youth workers "cook up" lasting results with kids.

Product Description: A powerful, positive guide to infusing assets into any school community.

When a little girl who is afraid of thunderstorms, monsters, traffic accidents, and AIDS, reveals her fears to her mother and teacher, she receives reassuring explanations and is no longer afraid.

Intended to help young people explore who they are and why they do what they do.

After being elected freshman class president and with life ahead looking good, Adam takes his first drink at a party; and the book chronicles his slide into alcoholism, for a variety of reasons, until twenty trouble-filled months later, he finally faces the fact that he needs help.

Three friends try to get their family members to quit smoking.

In this allegory about marihuana abuse, Brian begins to withdraw from his family after his friend gives him a mysterious hat to wear.

A high school girl and her friends spend a Saturday spying on stereotypical individuals they usually make fun of, such as Jock, Clown, and Brain, and find them to be more complex than they expected.

A teenage couple makes decisions about becoming sexually active.

When the second graders are assigned a riddle to solve, Maria pairs up with the new student, Pete, and together they discover the answer to the riddle and become friends.

Product Description: Book by Starkman, Neal